Sisi warns against the enforced displacement of the people of Sinai

p>Below is the transcript of the video. Read more about the 2 Egyptian who were killed by soldiers, after their torture and humiliation was recorded and uploaded to the internet.

I’m sure you can imagine that as an army officer I could come to Rafah and Sheikh Zwayyid, laying siege to them, removing the inhabitants and bombing the buildings there? Is it a problem that we do this? We shall kill anyone, impose a siege on Rafah and Sheikh Zyayyid, bring the inhabitants out and bomb these one hundred houses. We could do this. When someone fires, respond to his fire with one hundred more.

But suppose two or three innocent people die. Ultimately you would be creating an enemy for you and your country because there would be blood between you and him.

We create security through our presence and not through fighting. Pay attention. We say this here between us: security through presence, not fighting. One tank and one machine gun can do a lot for you but remember that these are, ultimately, your people. We should bring to mind the case of the cessation of the South in Sudan. The process started fifty years ago. And what was the remedy? It was of security and security only. There are no fine calculations. Public opinion pressure prevailed and those who led the remedy were influenced by it even if this was against national interest in the long term.